10 – Kaosball: The Fantasy Sport of Total Domination

A sports themed, card driven, miniatures game with a lot of re playability due to the number of teams, upgrades and ringers available.

It WOULD be higher but I’ve only played it with 4 players and the board can clog up a bit.

I have a feeling with 2 (or maybe 3) players the game is more open and free flowing like Blood Bowl but I still enjoy playing it tactically trying to free up space for my players. But still, a game I enjoy a lot.

9 – Mythotopia

First of 2 of the games I picked up at Essen to make it into my top 10.

This is a war game that using a pseudo-deck building mechanic to help you craft a deck to perform your actions on a board.

Just like Kaosball, the random set-up adds a lot to the game with each players starting locations and available cards to buy different each game. Also, 4 of the 7 scoring cards not only change the way players can score but can effect the board too.

3 – Dead of Winter

A co-op survival game based in a Zombie Apocalypse that MAY have a traitor.

I like story driven games, I like co-op, I like traitors and I like a Zombie Apocalypse… So this one should work well.

This is a very challenging game where you not only have to make mechanical decisions to help you win the game but moral ones too. Letting a group of people die so you don’t have to feed them, for example.

The Crossroad mechanic is great and keeps 2 players in the game on a turn and the possibility of a betrayer mostly removes the Alpha gamer.

I’ve played it a few times and I’m yet to be on the winning side… but I do really enjoy playing it.

2 – Lost Legacy

Being a fan of Love Letter it wasn’t obvious that adding something extra to the game would make it any better. But very quickly after playing it 2 player I thought it was awful… Love Letter is great with just 2.

But, after playing The Starship with 4 I really got to see how good this game is and it’s replaced Love letter for me, with 3+ players anyway.

Flying Garden has added something extra too with it feeling VERY different to The Starship while again, keeping to that basic Love Letter game play.

Adding two sets together is good… not great though. While being able to accommodate 6 players is great, the game slows down a bit and it loses something I think.